Friday 27 May 1988

It was Friday, under the sign of Gemini. The US president was Ronald Reagan (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include Nicola Payne and Irina Davydova.
In that special week of May people in US were listening to One More Try by George Michael.
In UK Perfect by Fairground Attraction was in the top 5 hits.
Big, directed by Penny Marshall, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1988
while Zoya by Danielle Steel was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching The D Generation Goes Commercial.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Baal or Cloud Master.
But much more happened that day: find out below..

When a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant American actor meet in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale but ends in tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their three children are cruelly separated.

Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review)“A page-turner .